Matteo Patrone

Matteo Patrone is Vice President, Banking at the EBRD and member of the Executive Committee. 

He has overall responsibility for the effective delivery of EBRD investments and advisory activities in the Bank’s countries of operation, in addition to contributing to the delivery of EBRD policy engagement activities. 

Mr Patrone previously held the post of Managing Director, Eastern Europe and Caucasus. In that role, he was responsible for the Bank’s operations and policy engagement initiatives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova and for spearheading the Bank's crisis response to the war on Ukraine.

His 30-year career includes senior management and leadership positions in merchant banking, private equity, management consulting and engineering. He joined the EBRD in 2008 as a senior banker with the Corporate Equity team. In 2012, he became Director for Serbia, based in Belgrade, and in 2015, moved to Bucharest as the Director, Regional Head for Romania and Bulgaria. In 2018, he was appointed Managing Director, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

Prior to working at the EBRD, Mr Patrone was Managing Director of the private equity arm of Finanziaria Internazionale, an Italian merchant bank, where he spent 10 years investing in a broad range of sectors.

Before that, he was Senior Manager at Accenture Strategic Services in Milan and held various positions in the Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) and ENI groups in the UK and Italy.

Mr Patrone holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MSc cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Genoa University.